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Navigating the corporate hierarchy: How Black female executives make sense of their experiences ascending the corporate ladder and sustaining themselves in senior-level positions.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Navigating the corporate hierarchy: How Black female executives make sense of their experiences ascending the corporate ladder and sustaining themselves in senior-level positions./
Author:	Hayes, Sandra.
Description:	226 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Lyle Yorks.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International69-08A.
Subject:	Black Studies. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=3327041
ISBN:	9780549789826

Navigating the corporate hierarchy: How Black female executives make sense of their experiences ascending the corporate ladder and sustaining themselves in senior-level positions.
Hayes, Sandra.

Navigating the corporate hierarchy: How Black female executives make sense of their experiences ascending the corporate ladder and sustaining themselves in senior-level positions. - 226 p.

Adviser: Lyle Yorks.

Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 2008.

It has been documented that African American women represent a tiny fraction of the leadership at the upper levels of corporations. Evidence suggests that being Black and female converts the glass ceiling to a more impenetrable concrete ceiling as these women strive to extend their careers beyond middle management. Yet, although their numbers are minuscule, some African American women do manage to advance to and sustain themselves at the senior levels of top-tier corporations. How these women describe their experiences navigating beyond barriers that so few Black women are able to penetrate is the focus of this study. A review of the literature in light of Kegan's constructive-developmental theory of adult development suggests that making meaning at a self-authoring level of complexity is needed to deal effectively with the uniquely multifaceted mental demands Black female executives tend to face in corporations.

ISBN: 9780549789826Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017673
Black Studies.

Navigating the corporate hierarchy: How Black female executives make sense of their experiences ascending the corporate ladder and sustaining themselves in senior-level positions.
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